Literary notes about Accomplish (AI summary)
Across various works of literature, "accomplish" serves as a multifaceted term that emphasizes the achievement or fulfillment of a goal. Authors use it to depict everything from the completion of small, tactical tasks ([1], [2]) to the realization of grand, existential purposes central to a character’s journey or a divine plan ([3], [4]). It often underscores the tension between human determination and forces beyond control, highlighting both the potential for individual triumph ([5], [6]) and the inherent limits of mortal endeavor ([7], [8]). In this way, the term becomes a vehicle for expressing both the valor of completing arduous tasks and the bittersweet recognition of challenges that remain insurmountable.
- I had to rest several times before I could accomplish this manoeuvre, but it was at length accomplished.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe - Besides, it will be a marvel if the horsemen come not upon us from York, unless we speedily accomplish our purpose.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott - but God's way to accomplish his good purposes.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - That I may accomplish the oath which I swore to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day.
— from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - It was not that I wished to live for my own sake, but it was that I desired to accomplish my purpose.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle - You will accomplish what I was to have done, and derive all the honor and profit from it.’
— from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet - The very last thing I should promise to accomplish would be to "improve" mankind.
— from Ecce Homo by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - —When some men fail to accomplish what they desire to do they exclaim angrily, “May the whole world perish!”
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
